"My first advice (on how not to grow old) would be to choose you ancestors carefully."
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"I've had small depressions, days when I've woken up and felt sad, especially when I'm so far away from home. I've got my religion and that is my therapy, although I think it would be good for me to have someone I can talk to. But I have friends. I haven't got a therapist but maybe I should."
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"The ideal thing would be to have a 100 percent effective AIDS vaccine. And to have broad usage of that vaccine. That would literally break the epidemic."
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"Natural epidemics can be extremely large. Intentionally caused epidemics, bioterrorism, would be the largest of all."
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"Nothing fortifies scepticism more than that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong."
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"I'm as skeptical as anyone would be about celebrities and causes - and I will dare to say to you that I don't think of myself as a celebrity per se."
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"I remember Agassi playing Federer in Basel, Switzerland in 1998, and Andre was already saying at that time that Federer would be tough. Usually at the time players are 17, you can see if they will be great."
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"I was never good at hide and seek because I'd always make enough noise so my friends would be sure to find me. I don't have anyone to play those games with any more, but now and then I make enough noise just in case someone is still looking and hasn't found me yet."
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"Java development without a little heresy would be a dull place, and a dangerous one."
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"You would be amazed at who people are once you know yourself."
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"Forget all the bars and schmoozing and everybody checking out everybody else. My ideal date would be to park in a dark place, check out the stars, and have a great conversation. When all else fails, you can just make out."
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"I have always thought it would be easier to redeem a man steeped in vice and crime than a greedy, narrow-minded, pitiless merchant."
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"If one could only say just once: 'this is clear', all would be saved"
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"I think my exact comment was that if Bush won it would be a good time to leave the United States. I'm not necessarily going to leave the United States."
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"You are very amiable, no doubt, but you would be charming if you would only depart."
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"I consider Christianity to be one of the great disasters of the human race... It would be impossible to imagine anything more un - Christianlike than theology."
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"Kevin Keegan said if he had a blank sheet of paper, five names would be on it."
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"I thought 'Out of Africa' would be a beautiful ballet."
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"I think it would be great to make a $2 million or $3 million art movie where nobody would really have to go to it. I thought that would be a good project to work on . . . do something really artistic."
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"It would be pleasant to be drunk."
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